HR5419Passed House
Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-09-17
Introduced
0
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Thomas H. Kean, Jr.
Republican · NJ · Representative
Votes with party: 94.2% (464 recorded votes)
Full profile: /officials/K000398
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Cosponsors (0)
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
2026-03-04
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Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2026-03-04
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReported By · 2026-02-24
- House Committee on AgricultureDischarged From · 2026-02-24
Previously
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesDischarged from · 2026-02-11
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesMarkup By · 2026-02-11
- House Committee on AgricultureReferred To · 2025-09-17
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2025-09-17
Plain-English Summary
Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to study and report on any barriers to and staffing needs for completing timely reviews of requests for communications use authorizations. (These are requests for easements, rights-of-way, leases, licenses, or other authorizations to locate or modify a transmitting device, support structure, or other communications facility on public lands or National Forest System land.)
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
Subjects
Public Lands and Natural Resources
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